Registration and Credentials

Registration

The names and contact information of your designated representatives (including postal addresses, telephone numbers, facsimile numbers and e-mail addresses, where available) should be communicated to the Secretariat of the three conventions using the registration form no later than Friday, 20 January 2017. Please send your registration forms (if you are a Party to at least one of the conventions, please send it together with an official nomination letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or a note verbale from the Permanent Mission of your country to the United Nations) to the following address:

On-site registration will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, 23 April 2017, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, 24 April 2017, and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the remaining days of the meetings. Security checks will be carried out at the conference centre each time you enter the venue. Please note that owing to the high number of participants expected, we strongly recommend that you register on Sunday or as early as possible.

Meeting participants may collect their security identification badges at the registration desks upon presentation of one of the following identification documents issued by agovernment recognised by the United Nations:

Valid national passport;

Valid picture identification card, in Latin alphabets;

Valid picture "residency" card, in Latin alphabets; or

Valid picture drivers licence, in Latin alphabets.

Credentials (for Parties to the conventions)

In accordance with rule 18 of the rules of procedure for the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention, rule 19 of the rules of procedure for the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention and rule 19 of the rules of procedure for the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention, parties must submit the credentials of the representatives, as well as the names of the alternate representatives and advisers, who will constitute the delegation to the meetings of those of the three conventions to which their State or regional economic integration organization is a Party.

For your convenience, a model form of credentials is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish:

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Model form of credentials

Credentials must be issued by the head of State or Government, by the Minister for Foreign Affairs or, in the case of a regional economic integration organization, by the competent authority of that organization.

Moreover, credentials shall be submitted to the Secretariat if possible, no later than 24 hours after the opening of the meetings (therefore by 10 am on Tuesday, 25 April 2017). The Secretariat however invites advance submission of the credentials, preferably by Friday, 7April 2017, as doing so will greatly facilitate the clearance process.